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title: But neither he nor Ogier the Dane nor any one of the King's men coul… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But neither he nor Ogier the Dane nor any one of the King's men could hold their ground that day against the sons of Aymon. Who acts: Archbishop. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John, with its dependency tree and t
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 31

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But neither he nor Ogier the Dane nor any one of the King's men could hold their ground that day against the sons of Aymon.

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**Who acts:** Archbishop · **What happens:** hold · **To what, where:** ground

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Archbishop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:7:31
# text = But neither he nor Ogier the Dane nor any one of the King's men could hold their ground that day against the sons of Aymon.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
4	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	5	cc	_	_
5	Ogier	Ogier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Dane	Dane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	10	cc	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	against	against	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Aymon	Aymon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | could | Archbishop | men's ground |  |  | day | against the sons of Aymon | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ground=Theme against son=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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